Why should you let your daughter go on
"the eras tour"?
Made by: Trinidad Cárdenas, Isidora Rojas y
Manolo Valdes
What is “The Eras Tour?
Your daughter may have mentioned it to you, but you may not have quite understood it yet,
so let us explain it to you. The Eras Tour is a global concert tour by the American singer
Taylor Swift, the name of the tour is because the 'eras' describe the different stages Taylor
Swift has experienced, with each album forming part of a 45-song show that lasts around 3
hours. The show has 13 changes of look and 10 different scenographies, so you must
understand that it is the most important concert for Taylor and her fans, but if you still do
not understand. Here we give you 3 reasons to get the importance of the concert.
Reason 1.
You need to know a little bet about Taylor´s career, she made her music debut with the
album called: Taylor Swift (2006), the lead single from which was Tim McGraw, which
spent 157 consecutive weeks at number 5 on the Billboard 200. Other singles from the
album released between 2006 and 2008 were Teardrops on My Guitar, Our Song and
Should've Said No. Taylor was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2008 Grammy Awards
for her debut album. Her second studio album was Fearless (2008), which was released
with the single Love Story. The album includes songs such as You Belong With Me, White
Horse, Fifteen and Fearless.
And that is just the beginning of her history, and we don´t want to make it longer for you,
so here is a list of her albums:
Taylor Swift (2006)
Fearless (2008)
Speak Now (2010)
Red (2012)
1989 (2014)
Reputation (2017)
Lover (2019)
Folklore (2020)
Evermore (2020)
Fearless (Taylor´s Version) (2021)
Red (Taylor´s Version) (2021)
Midnights (2022)
Speak know (Taylors Version) (2023)
Now you must be asking, why Taylor is re-recording her albums? Well in short words,
this stems from a dispute between the singer and music impresario Scooter Braun,
which began in June 2019 when Braun acquired the company Big Machine Label
Group, which owned the rights to Taylor Swift's early album recordings. The
acquisition included the rights to the master recordings of her albums, from her debut in
2006 to Reputation in 2017. Swift expressed her discontent on social media and in
interviews over Braun's purchase of Big Machine Label Group, as she felt she had not
had the opportunity to buy her own recordings and retain control of her music. She also
revealed that she was unwilling to work with Braun and was deeply uncomfortable with
the idea of him having control over her previous work. She was concerned that Braun
might influence her future work and the way she would manage her musical legacy.
The situation became even more public when the American singer-songwriter
announced her intention to re-record her early albums in an initiative she called Taylor's
Version. It was Swift's approach to taking back her original recordings and maintaining
ownership of her music. She aimed to guarantee that her fans would encounter the
songs as she envisioned them, free from the contentious acquisition of the original
recordings that could impact her musical heritage.
In the concert, Taylor sings songs of all of her albums, and that make it a show special
for her and the swifties (the name of Taylor´s fans)
Reason 2.
For Latin fans, this is one of the most important parts, as it is the first time that Taylor
Swift has visited these countries: Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
The Lover Fest was going to be a world tour where she would debut in these countries,
being a tour of her album Lover (2019), but at the beginning of the pandemic it was
canceled, leaving many fans sad. She continued to create music despite the confinement
managing to create two more albums, folklore and evermore, over the years and
resuming the concerts decided to make "The Eras Tour" much larger than the Lover
Fest would be, as it covers all its eras, so the happiness and excitement of the Latin fans
is greater to wait many years for this moment.
Reason 3
A US psychiatrist told the famous New York Times magazine: "A few months ago I
started joking that half the treatments in my psychiatry practice were 'Taylor-based'.
Many of my patients are teenagers and young women who have turned to Taylor Swift
as a kind of big sister through the daily agonies of adolescence: unstable friendships,
the 24-hour internet firing squad and, of course, the endless yearning to feel seen and
valued. At the end of a session exploring these struggles, I'd be grateful to have her to
keep my patients company for the rest of the week, but as The Eras tour approached our
city, Taylor's therapeutic questions came to a boil. "How am I going to keep my cool
before I go on stage?" he asked. "I'm going to have to do therapy at a distance today,
because I can't catch Covidien before the concert." "How am I going to get back to
normal life when it's over? They said they needed to calm down, and to help them do
that we looked at all sorts of tricks - behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, existential -
and explored these patients' relationships with anticipation, enjoyment, self-regulation
and suffering.
But I didn't quite understand why this artist and this tour were so powerful and so
disruptive, so I started listening. And listened to some more. And I started staying up all
night refreshing apps to get last-minute access to "Taypocalypse". And then I took my
daughter to the concert. And now I can't calm down either.
Swiftmania is a very different high to the one I got from listening to music as a
teenager: a high worth suffering for. It's not just the plethora of songs to discover, but
the Swiftie culture itself: the constant access to music, the news, the search for
merchandise, the shouting in the streets, the exchange of songs and lines of poetic code
via text messages or bracelets, a party that goes on all day and all night.
But what is unique about this artist in this era is the access she has created to a
cohesive community, especially for the pandemic generation whose social connections
have become tragically elusive and for whom the internet has become central.
Whatever the reason for your displeasure, this generation's poet laureate has a song
somewhere in her mega-work that describes that very sentiment. She won't solve your
problem, but she will sit with you until time has done its work: look at her now.
Adolescence tempts you to explore and interpret who you could be over and over again,
and the track 'Eras' from her current tour electrifies that process. MetLife Stadium was
a bacchanal of mass identification, a celebration of that ubiquitous girl who felt
somehow invisible until there were 83,000 people like her, glowing from miniskirt to
concert wristband, lighting up the night sky and wondering: what era am I in now?
Who was I last year? And which part of me is emerging, growing in complexity? The
eras offer a reassuring trajectory that encompasses them all. You can dress up as the
party girl born in 1989, but everyone here understands that you are also heartbroken
and angry and forgiving and brave.”
With this information, we believe that it is more than clear what good Taylor does for
her fans, that basically she is a way for the Swifties to escape their problems and at the
same time they are able to identify with the singer in her songs, making the problems or
complications in the lives of her fans not feel deep and lonely.
Finally, we can see that it would be very important for your sons or daughters to go to
this concert, because it is one of the best concerts in the history of music. Despite the
complications that this artist has had with the production company, she is one of the
world's most representative girls or boys who have gone through difficult stages
representing them, as time goes by this artist will be remembered for her explosive leap
to fame and winner of many awards, so we hope that this essay may change your mind
about letting your daughter go on this tour.